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Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube There are thousands of different species of sea anemones in the ocean with some living as far deep as 32,000 feet. Anemones are marine invertebrates that ...
Armed with a camera and a sense of wonder, Sapeer captured a wall draped in sagging sea anemones. ''My friend and I went to ...
Anemonefishes are a group of damselfishes “that exclusively live symbiotically with sea anemones,” researchers said in a July 10 study published in the peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys. They are ...
The sea anemone Nematostella vectensis provides a perfect model for researchers -- apart from its stinging tentacles perhaps. It is a small marine invertebrate that is easy to keep in the ...
Sea anemones sometimes eat … ants. But why? New research shows how little we know about the diets of some underwater scavengers—and the intricate connections between land and marine food webs.
The genome of the starlet sea anemone is nearly as complex as the human genome, according to UC Berkeley and Joint Genome Institute researchers who have completed the first analysis of the animal ...
The anemones use these feelers to collect and shove food into their mouths, and a new study provides an in-depth look into the rich diversity of prey the anemones are catching. This includes a ...
The sea anemone, for example, has about 18,000 genes, while humans have about 20,000. According to the researchers, this implies that the common ancestor had about the same number of genes ...
The sea anemone is an oddball: half-plant and half-animal, at least when it comes to its genetic code, new research suggests. The sea creature's genes look more like those of animals, but the ...
In the four-year study, researchers created a "tree of life" for sea anemones, which are sometimes called "flowers of the sea" but are actually stationary meat-eating animals.In doing so, they ...
They’re eating whatever they can catch, whatever isn’t too big or too small, whatever can’t swim away. One of the most surprising results is that in addition to all the usual suspects you’d find in ...